OpenRouter vs OVHcloud
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: OpenRouter is cheaper on 5 of 10 shared models (input or output price), OVHcloud on 4.
OpenRouter
One API key for 340+ models across every major provider, with automatic failover and pass-through pricing. The fastest way to hedge provider risk or A/B models without new integrations.
- 340+ models, one integration
- Automatic provider failover
- Pass-through pricing, small platform fee
OVHcloud
European cloud giant with budget GPU instances (V100, L4, L40S, H100) and strong data-sovereignty guarantees. Pricing sits well below US hyperscalers for equivalent hardware.
- EU sovereignty
- Budget hourly pricing
- Anti-DDoS included
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-23 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | OpenRouter in/out | OVHcloud in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Nemo | $0.019 / $0.030 | $0.130 / $0.130 | OpenRouter |
| GPT-OSS 20B | $0.020 / $0.100 | $0.040 / $0.150 | OpenRouter |
| Llama 3.1 8B | $0.050 / $0.080 | $0.100 / $0.100 | OpenRouter |
| Qwen3 32B | $0.080 / $0.280 | $0.080 / $0.230 | tie |
| Llama 3.3 70B | $0.100 / $0.320 | $0.670 / $0.670 | OpenRouter |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | $0.100 / $0.300 | $0.090 / $0.280 | OVHcloud |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.180 / $0.800 | $0.080 / $0.400 | OVHcloud |
| Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | $0.400 / $0.400 | $0.670 / $0.670 | OpenRouter |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B | $0.800 / $0.800 | $0.670 / $0.670 | OVHcloud |
| Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | $0.800 / $1.00 | $0.910 / $0.910 | OpenRouter |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.